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Getting started with Unity & some Unity Pro Resources

Over the last few days I have been having a lot of fun playing around in the Unity editor while watching the relatively new Unity-3D-3.5-Essential-Training tut that Sue Blackman teaches on the video tutorial site, Lynda.com. This reminded me that I had collected some nice Unity Pro resources and tutorials from both inside Unity and from the wild. Now seemed like a good time to share them. I needed to update a few, but this seems to be a solid list. In the interest of time and needing sleep, I simply added the links to each resource or tutorial below. When I get some more time, I will clean this post up to make the links accessible directly. If you have pointers to some other good resources or tutorials, post a comment here or message me on twitter @rturkowski.

Read on and enjoy.

Entering your Unity Serial Number
Once you have purchased Unity Pro, You need to register your serial key with your Unity installation. In Unity select the ‘Help’ drop down and select ‘Enter Serial Key’. This should take you through an automatic activation process.

Accessing the Unity Asset Store
Notice that when you start Unity, a ‘Welcome to Unity’ page appears. You can easily access the Asset Store through this and begin taking the appropriate steps to purchase the assets you require. Otherwise select the ‘Window’ tab and select ‘Asset Store’ (Ctrl + 9).

Last but not least, here is a public game engine comparison where you can gauge how Unity compares to other solutions out there: http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/jmwf0/comparison_of_free_aaa_game_engines_cryengine/ and another one is at http://www.esenthel.com/?id=compare. But frankly, both of these may no longer be up to date. Regardless, I found them both interesting reads.